Hagen Muench <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This would really be nice. One time, we tried out to boot from memory > stick. We didn't solved this problem yet.
I have read you need a fairly sophisticated BIOS, and that such BIOSes are often buggy. But it would be fun to try just the same. > | With all the possible network and hard disk drivers, I think it is > | important for any Linux-based approach to use a modular kernel and to > | separate the "initial boot" disk from the "driver modules" disk, much > | like any Linux installer does. > > It's already a plan to modularize it. Well, I am getting interested enough that I plan to play with it this weekend. The 2.6 kernel seems to have some facilities which simply autodetecting hardware and loading drivers (e.g., sysfs, improved hotplug/coldplug infrastructure). I am still doing research, though. > At the beginnig of 2002 we tried out the dosemu stuff. But dosemu > couldn't start the winnt.exe. This was an issue at this time. Maybe > this is fixed yet (does anybody knows?). It was fixed during the summer of 2002: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=102765548220451 (Read the thread for details... The fixes made it into the Linux kernel and dosemu shortly thereafter.) Between Linux, dosemu, and FreeDOS, I believe we can provide a completely free infrastructure for installing Windows, which is a very pleasing concept :-). - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info